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• December 14, 2012
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  Raspberry Pi used to automate a dimmable light bulb

  Posted: December 14th, 2012, 2:01pm PST by Mike Szczys

  Tags:  raspberry automate bulb stephen mechanical-connection electric-shock servo-motor raspberry  

  [Stephen] took the safe route when getting his Raspberry Pi to dim an AC light bulb. He didn’t roll his own outlet box with a mains-rated relay inside, going with a mechanical connection instead of electrical. By attaching a servo motor to the dimmer knob the RPi can adjust the light level without risk of electric shock. [...]